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olde trunnell hole which was rottem and ha … olde trunnell hole which was rottem and had sucked in grasse<br />
and dirt which stopped it for a while in some measure, And<br />
the same being soe found out and cleered of the dirt<br />
and grasse which was in it, this deponent and the Carpenter of the<br />
''hopefull Adventure'' and his mate aforesayd did well and sufficiently<br />
stopp and amend the sayd leak, soe that the same<br />
was made tight and stanch, and the saud shipp by that meanes<br />
performed her voyage for England where this deponent hath<br />
since seene her and bin on board her on the River of Thames neere<br />
dicks shoare there; the premisses hee deposeth being Carpenter<br />
of the shipp the ''Charles'' of London then lyeing neere the<br />
''hopefull Adventure'' in Virginia when the premisses happenedm and<br />
togeather with others of the ''Charles'' her company helpeing to pumpe<br />
the ''hopefull Adventure'' and to cleere her hold of water, and seeing divers<br />
planters of Virginia on board and assisting about the same, and<br />
procuring of the Captaine of the ''Charles'', lead and nayles to use<br />
about stopping the sayd leake, when found, and helpeing to stopp<br />
and amend the same And further to these articles hee cannot<br />
depose saving hee beleeveth the goods on board the ''hopefull Adventure''<br />
could not chuse but receive much damage by reason of the sayd<br />
leake, there being as aforesayd soe much water in her hold<br />
before the same was espied and amended as aforesayd./
To the 5th article hee saith hee well remembreth that the Captaine<br />
of the ''Charles'' aforesayd askeing this deponent in presence of the<br />
arlate husbands whether they had found the leake or not, and<br />
this deponent answering and saying noe not yet, but wee hope wee shall<br />
the arlate husbands sayd that hee knew well enough that there<br />
was an old leake in some part of her (meaning the ''hopefull Adventure'')<br />
and that hee knew it before,<br />
or words to that effect, and saith that afterwards<br />
the Captaine of the ''Charles'' speakeing of the sayd Leake before<br />
the sayd husbands and this deponent and the foresayd davies the<br />
Caarpenter, and alsoe before the Gunner of the ''hopefull Adventure'', on board the<br />
sayd ''hopefull Adventure'', and saying that the sayd husbands did<br />
saye that hee knew the sayd shipp ''Adventure'' had an old leake longe<br />
before then, that the same was soe found, the sayd husbands then denyed<br />
the same and sayd if hee sayd soe, hee sayd hee did not know what, oryd soe, hee sayd hee did not know what, or +
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